Tater Tot Taco Bake

"This recipe reminds me of chili cheese fries. (I have reduced the amount of milk after reading the reviews. I hope this helps.)"
 
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Ready In:
45mins
Ingredients:
7
Serves:
3-4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat the oven to 375 degrees then spray a 8x8 glass baking dish with cooking spray.
  • Brown the beef in a skillet until no longer pink, drain excess grease. Stir in the rest of the ingredients except the tater tots.
  • Pour the mixture into the baking dish then top with the tater tots. Bake for 25 minutes then turn on broil & cook another 5 minutes. Serve hot.

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Reviews

  1. Oh how we love this casserole! I use Recipe #4292 for the Taco Seasoning, and add green beans to the mixture (I find if the veggies are mixed in, they are more likely to be eaten than if they're a side dish!) This is deeply satisfying comfort food. Wish I could make it more often...but my arteries protest! Thanks, Nasseh!
     
  2. I admit that I was skeptical...looking at the ingredients I thought 'that's it?' but I made it, and served it with taco shells and taco 'fixings' i.e. tomato, lettuce, olives and everyone loved it. My youngest, who loves tater tots, thought I tortured the tater tots, but he ended up eating 3 tacos. The potato taste with the taco beef is really good. Will definately make this again.
     
  3. I used more tater tots than stated but kept the rest the same. Very good and very easy for a weeknight dinner!
     
  4. Prepare to adorn!!!.. Standing alone, this isn't anything to rave about, but after topping it with sour cream, hot sauce, or guacamole on the plate... it is pretty darned tastey!
     
  5. I made this as directed, only adding some frozen mixed vegetables to the meat mixture. For us the cheese soup seemed to be too much. It made the meat mixture so goopy and thick and overly cheesey- and we like cheese. I think if made again, I would cut the canned soup to only 1/2 the can, and cut the sour cream as well- I didn't think it added anything to the dish that I would miss. Either that or instead of the canned cheese soup, I would just use a bit of velveeta. Also I think I would first cook the tater tots alone by themselves, then add them to the casserole at the end. They did get quite soggy.
     
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Tweaks

  1. I made this as directed, only adding some frozen mixed vegetables to the meat mixture. For us the cheese soup seemed to be too much. It made the meat mixture so goopy and thick and overly cheesey- and we like cheese. I think if made again, I would cut the canned soup to only 1/2 the can, and cut the sour cream as well- I didn't think it added anything to the dish that I would miss. Either that or instead of the canned cheese soup, I would just use a bit of velveeta. Also I think I would first cook the tater tots alone by themselves, then add them to the casserole at the end. They did get quite soggy.
     
  2. I made this according to directions the first time. The 2nd time, my family liked the following changes: 1 full pound of lean ground turkey Only 1/2 pkg taco seasoning Instead of soup & milk, instead we used 7oz salsa con queso & 7oz water
     

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